ALEV EBÜZZIYA SIESBYE

Born: Istanbul, Turkey, 1938. Studio in Paris.

EDUCATION

1956-58 Studies of Sculpture, Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul, Turkey

Fureya's Ceramic Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey

1958-60 Production Worker in Ceramic Factories, Hohr-Grenzhausen

1960-62 Eczacibasi Ceramic Factories, Art Workshop, Istanbul, Turkey

1963-68 Artist-in-Residence, Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1975 – Designer at Rosenthal, Selb, Germany

1985 – Designer at Royal Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

AWARDS

2000 Knight of Dannebrogordenen, The Royal Court, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995 Prins Eugen Medal, Stockholm, Sweden

1990 Moet Hennessy-Louis Vuitton "Science for Art"

1988 Sanat Kurumu, Ceramics Prize, Turkey Ataturk Gold Medal, Turkey

1983 Eckersberg Medal

1982 Tagea Brandts Legat

EXHIBITIONS

* catalogue + traveling

One Person

2005 Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye – A Necessidade de Nao Esquecer, Museu Nacional do Azulejo, Lisbon, Portugal

Yufuku Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2003 Garth Clark Gallery, New York

2003 Galerie Besson, London

2002 Retrospective, The Danish Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2001 Garth Clark Gallery, New York

Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey

2000 Galerie Elise Toft, Kolding

Dialogue: Alev Siesbye, Jorn Larsen-Koniglich Danishe Botschaft, Berlin, Germany

1999 Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey

Alev at Beymen, Museum of Archeology, Istanbul, Turkey

1998 Galerie Terra, Delft, Netherlands

Galerie Osiris, Brussels, Belgium

Galerie Landrot, Paris, France

1997 Garth Clark Gallery, New York

Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye – New Works, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Ercument Kalmik Foundation, Istanbul, Turkey

Galerie Jonas, Cortaillod, Switzerland

Gallery Besson, London, England

1996 Borreby Art Gallery, Borreby Slot, Skaelskör

1995 Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey

Galeri Nev, Ankara, Turkey

Galerie Osiris, Brussels, Belgium

1994 Galeri Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany

1993 Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles

1992 Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey *

Gallery Besson, London, England

Garth Clark Gallery, New York

Maison de la Céramique, Mulhouse

1991 Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Gallerie Epona, Paris, France

1990 Galerie Jonas, Cortaillod, Switzerland

1984 Garth Clark Gallery, New York

Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles

1983 Rohsska Museum, Goteborg

Kunstindustri Museet, Copenhagen, Denmark

1982 Kunstkammer Paul Koster, Monchen-Gladbach, Germany

Gres, Maison du Danemark, Paris, France

1981 Retrospective Exhibition, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1979 Gallery In-Art, Amsterdam, Netherlands

1976 Hetjens Museum, Dusseldorf, Germany

1975 Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

1971 Galerie Birkdam, Copenhagen, Denmark

1964 Royal Danish Porcelain Factories, Copenhagen, Denmark

Group

2003 From the Kilns of Denmark, Museum of Arts and Design, New York +*

2002 Postmodern Ceramics, Dolphin Gallery, Kansas City, MO

2000 Color and Fire – Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA +*

1999 Cosmos/Caos, Transcendent/Immanent, Luminaire/Linear, Cover/Contour, Galeri Nev, Ankara and Istanbul, Turkey

Commemorative Mugs for the Millenium, Gallery Anita Besson, London, England

Keramik aus Danemark, Galerie Handwerk, Munich, Germany

1998 International Contemporary Ceramics from Igal and Diane Silber Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA*

Amsterdam Art Fair, Galerie Terra, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Herning Art Fair, Galerie Egelund, Herning

1997 Dansk Keramik 1850-1997, Sophienholm, Denmark

Copenhagen Art Forum, Galerie Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

Sorlandets Artmuseum, Grete Nash Exhibition, Kristiansand, Norway

Keramik Des Jahrhunderts, Sammlung Welle, Scholss Heuhaus, Paderborn

1996 Grönningen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Unika, Kunstindustri Museet, Copenhagen, Denmark

25th Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie L, Hamburg, Germany

1995 Kjergaard andhis Students, Galeri Nörby, Copenhagen, Denmark

New Danish Design, Sophienhom

I am Another, Contemporary Turkish Paintings and Sculpture, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

1994 International Fine Ceramics, Alpha House Gallery, Dorset, England

Unikat-NeueKeraik aus Danemark, Keramion, Frechen, Cologne, Germany

F.I.A.C., Galerie Nord, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1993 Jorgen Larsen & Alev Siesbye, Sophienhom

Turquie, au nom de la tulipe, Centre Culturel, Boulogne-Billancourt

1990 Fifteen Danish Ceramic Artists & Leen Quist, Galerie Amphora, Oosterbeek +

Galeri Amphora Oosterbeck & Singer Museum, Laren, Holland

Oslo International Ceramics Symposium, Galleri F 15 Moss, Norway

Grönnigen, Copenhagen, Denmark

1991 10 Danish Women in the Arts, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC.

1989 Scandinavian Ceramics & Glass, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England

1988 F.I.A.C., Galerie Nord, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1987 F.I.A.C., Galerie Nord, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1986 F.I.A.C., Galerie Nord, Grand Palais, Paris, France

2nd International Exhibition, Contemporary European Ceramics, Keramion, Frechen

1985 "Oltre di 1000 Gradi," Eduard Chapallaz, Carmen Dionyse, Beate Kuhn, Karl Scheid, Alev Siesbye, Palazzo Agostinelli,

Bassano del Grappa

Taipei International Exhibition of Ceramics 1985, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.*

1982 Rosenthal, Hundert Jahre Porzellan, Kestner-Museum Hanover, Germany*

1981 Danish Ceramic Design, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State Park, PA

1979 Ceramics, Kettels Yard, Cambridge, England

1976 8 Danish Ceramists, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Contemporary European Ceramics, Keramin Frechen, Cologne, Germany

1975 Danish Arts and Crafts, Stads Museum, Helsinki, Finland

1973 Danish Handicrafts, Los Angeles, CA+

1972 Autumn Exhibition, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen Danish Handicrafts, Los Angeles+

COLLECTIONS

Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark

Museum Boymans van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

City Museum, Helsingborg

Coburg Museum, Coburg

Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York City

Danish State Art Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

Dienst Beeldende Kunst, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

F.N.A.C. for Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France

Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, Germany

Kestner Museum, Hanover, Germany

Kunst Museu, Aarhus

Kunstmuseet Trapholt, Kolding

L.O. Skolen, Helsingor

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Musée Bellerive, Zurich, Switzerland

Museum het Kruithuis, s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands

Museum of Decorative Arts, Cologne, Germany

Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State Park, PA

Museum of Decorative Arts, Hamburg, Germany

Museum of Decorative Arts, Ghent, Belgium

National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseet, Trondheim

NY Carlsberg Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

Oslo Kunst Industri Museum, Oslo, Norway

Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, PA

Prinsessehof Museum, Leuwarden, Netherlands

Royal Scottish Museum, Edinborough, Scotland

Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Denmark

Ulster Museum, Belfast, Ireland

Vestlandisk Kunstindustri Museet, Bergen

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Wüttembergische Landesmuseum, Stuttgart, Germany

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Books and Catalogs

Birks, Tony. The Complete Potter's Companion, Conran Octopus, London, England, 1993.

Clark, Garth and Vibeke Woldbye. Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye, Galeri Nev, Istanbul, Turkey, 1993.

-----. Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye, Kale, Turkey, 1999.

Cooper, Emmanuel. A History of World Pottery, B.T. Batsford, London, England, 1988.

Del Vecchio, Mark. Postmodern Ceramics, London: Thames & Hudson, 2001.

Gunnar Jakobsen. Danish Ceramic Bibliography 1880-1997, Host & Son, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1998.

Kjaergaard, Richard. Alev Siesbye, Skive Museums Paskeudstilling, 1982.

Lauria, Jo. Color and Fire - Defining Moments in Studio Ceramics, 1950-2000. Rizzoli International Publications, NY, 2000.

Lane, Peter. Studio Ceramics, Collins, London, England, 1983.

-----. Ceramic Form. A&C Black, London, England, 1998.

Lewenstein, Eileen and Emmanuel Cooper, eds. New Ceramics, Van Norstrand Reinhold Company, New York, 1974.

Lynn, Martha Drexler. Clay Today. Contemporary Ceramists and Their Work, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA, 1990

Preaud, Tamara and Serge Gauthier. Ceramics of the Twentieth Century, Rizzoli, New York, 1982.

Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia Ceramics & Glass in the Twentieth Century, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, England, 1989.

International Contemporary Ceramics from Igal and Diane Silber Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, 1998.

Taipei International Exhibition of Ceramics 1985, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, 1985.

Periodicals

Aksoy, Suay. "Alev Ebuzziya," Marie Claire, 49/1992.

Bitran, Albert. "Alev Siesbye," Arts et Lettres, 12/1998.

Brouillard, Florence. "Alev Siesbye," La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, 57/1991.

Clark, Garth. "Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye: Floating Volumes," Ceramic Arts, vol.2 1/1984

Cooper, Emmanuel. "Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye," Crafts, September/October 1992.

Espagnet, Francoise. "Receptacles d'espace," La Ceramique Moderne, 253/1982.

Hull, William. "Alev Siesbye: A Portrait," Ceramic Arts, vol.2 1/1984.

Rizv, Sajid. "The music of Alev's singing bowls," Eastern Art, vol. III 5/1992.

Schnyder, Rudolf. "Tendencies in European Ceramics," Pottery in Australia, 4/1988.

Woldbye, Vibeke. "Alev Ebuzziya Siesbye," La Revue de la Ceramique et du Verre, 7/1982.

"Alev Siesbye," Ceramics Monthly, 9/1992.